Toy vehicle



M: D' BROGKe TOY VEHICLE..

APPLlvcATloN man wLv 30.1918.

Famed Mar, 1, 1921.

I N VE N TOR A1000/i0. Brock. Y

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`UNITED STATES PATE MAYNOR n. BROCK, or KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

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Be it known that I, MAYNon D. Bnooipa citizen of the: United States, residingat Kansas City, in the county of'Ja-ckson and yState of Missouri, havel inventedV certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Vehicles; and'I dodeclare the following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters and figuresv of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification;

This inventionA relates to vehicles adaptedvto. be operated by juveniles, and one of the -objects of the invention is to provide a f vehicle which the child mayreadily manipulate, which is adapted to be propelled by pedaling against the surface over which the vehicle travels, which is adapted to be used as a coaster, and which is adapted to` bev drawn if desired, by a second party throughl the medium of a cord or rope, which will direct the car without the aid of the occupant of the car if so desired.

Another object of the invention is to furfv l nish a seat provided with a Lsupport confined within narrow limits so that thefeet and lower part ofthe legs lof the operator may assume substantially a vertical position and.

not necessarily a sidewise position and so that Vthe knees-of the operator-may remain near together instead of being forced to bel spread apart as is common with some of the devices in use whichhave an arrangement 1n which the width of the support parallelv with the surface of the earth instead of per"- pendicular to itas in this device, one of the aims being to prevent friction on the private parts of the young operator.

lAnother aim of this invention is to have the back wheels of the vehicle well back so Y .they will not interfere with the feet of the operator and so the skirt of the child will not touch them readily if at all.`

'It is also the purpose of the invention to hinge the body portion in between its ends so that it may be guided by the occupant or guided by means of a cord from the front with equal facility.

It is also the purpose of thisinvention to provide a device of thevclass describedl which may be rendered vertically adjustable.

Other objects and advantages Yof the rinvention will appear hereinafter, it'being v Specication of Letters Patent. i* I Application med July ao; 191s. seiai 110,247,354'.

Patented Mar. 3.19271.

understood that Vchanges in form,.p1'opor be' resorted .to' without 'departing from .the

spirit'of the invention or sacrificing any. ofl

its` advantages- In the drawings-4f fr 0m@ i tion, and minor details of construction may f' .Figure I is apersp'ective View of'a vehicle tion.

linelII-III 'of Fig. Il'.

Fig. IV is a sectional view through the forward hinge joint, and

Fig. V is a perspective view of a modified vform of the device.

Referring Vnow to the drawings by nuv merals of reference:

l designates a bodyl portion or seatfsupporting beam whichV consists of a block or beam having a hinged forward'steering head 2, the hinge being best shown in Fig. IV' as .being mortised in the parts 1 and Y2 as shown at 3 and 4f. The leaves 5 and, 6 of thehinges are fastened in place .by fastening devices 7 and 8 andthe adjacent edges of the parts 1 and 2are rounded,4 chainferedl or beveled to permit the steeringhead to be Vswung on a relatively wide arc. Y

Upon the rear portion of part 1 is trans-` verse back or support having a plurality of openings 10 in which the axle 11 is adjustably mounted, said axles supporting the Ywheels 12 and 13. Intermediatey the ends of the member 1 is a cutout portionor depres- .y sion 14 adjacent to the seat 15 whereby the I operators legs may have'free'dom, Vwhereby a skirt may be allowed to drop and assume its normal position with respectto the oper-y `ator, the thin narrow member lpermitting the legs to remain `closed together ati-allv times and not causing frictionon the private'parts of the operator during p'edaling.

ico Y 'On the steering head is a steering handle' .jor bar 16 which may be grasped by the operator in va convenient mannerqto run the Ahead either to the right or the/left. Ihave provided means whereby the seat supporting Vbea-m maybe adjusted vertically and this is accomplished by providingv adjusting openings 17 andv 18 in the steering head which in conjunctionwith the openings 10 permit the, seat supporting beam 1 to be. raised' and lowered. When it is vdesired to adjust the beam 1 the hinge Afastenings 7 Aand the axle 11 maybe removed kand after raising the hin e leaf 5 and With it the beam 1 andv bac 9 thefastenings 7 and the 'axle may be placed in the next highest hole or open-k ings or for extreme adjustment the aXle 19 .for the front Wheels 20 and 21 may be placed in the holes 18, the aXle 1l, of course, being also adjusted. 22 is a key-hole-shaped openn ing through which the knotted end of a cord' or rope may be placed when not in use,` the Lnarrow part of the slot preventing accidental disjilacement'of the cord' or rope. l

In Fig. I have shown a slightlymodified` form of device in which a coasterstep y23 is provided, attached atits .rear end to the back 9'and at its front end tothe steerinv head by a hinge 24.

n actual practice I prefer to slot or kerf the head longitudinally as shown to receive the hinge leaf 5 which may be fastened therein Vby the fastening devices 7 in an eHiien-t manner.

one end yof the beam, asteering headhav.- l VingV a kerf therein, a leaf hinge, one leaf of which is fastened With the beam, theother .leaf being ',adjustablen the kerf, a `vWheelsupporting axle for the" steering head, a;

Wheel-supported axle adjustable in the back j piece, and aseat onthe beam.'v u

In testimony whereof I alix my signature Y MAYNOR D, BROCK; ,v 

